[arch-dev-public] [signoff] inetutils-1.5-1

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 22:21:33 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As previously discussed
>>>> (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-December/009353.html)
>>>> I've just added  inetutils-1.5-1in testing to implement FS#12281. This
>>>> new package will provide the following network clients/daemons:
>>>> ftp/ftpd
>>>> rexec/rexecd
>>>> rlogin/rlogind
>>>> rsh/rshd
>>>> talk/talkd
>>>> telnet/telnetd
>>>> rcp.
>>>>
>>>> It will replace the following packages:
>>>> core/netkit-telnet
>>>> extra/netkit-ftp
>>>> extra/netkit-rsh
>>>> On a related note, netkit-tftp will be remove from the repo in favor
>>>> of tftp-hpa. The inetutils tools can also profide a tftp
>>>> client/server. It's currently not included in the inetutils package.
>>>> We could provide them in a separate package if there is sufficient
>>>> demand.
>>>>
>>>> As inetutils will go to core as it will replace a core package, it
>>>> will require the usual 2 signoffs.  Signoff from users will be
>>>> appreciated as well as these network  tools have a low usage these
>>>> days. Please indicate what specific client/daemon you tested.  Because
>>>> it's a totally new package, I'll keep it in testing for at least a
>>>> week to give more time to test.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wait before signing off. inetutils 1.6 is out.
>>>
>>
>>  inetutils 1.6 is in testing now. Please signoff.
>
> telnet on i686 was fail for me. The escape sequence didn't seem to work at all.
Sorry, I actually meant x86_64 here. This was the scene on i686:

:: Retrieving packages from testing...
 inetutils-1.6-1-i686     321.9K  212.4K/s 00:00:02 [---------------------] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [---------------------] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
inetutils: /usr/bin/ftp exists in filesystem
inetutils: /usr/bin/rcp exists in filesystem
inetutils: /usr/bin/rsh exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

dmcgee at dublin ~
$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/rcp /usr/bin/rsh
error: No package owns /usr/bin/ftp
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rcp
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rsh

dmcgee at dublin ~
$ ll /usr/bin/ftp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-08-04 19:19 /usr/bin/ftp -> sftp

dmcgee at dublin ~
$ ll /usr/bin/rcp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-06-12 23:22 /usr/bin/rcp -> scp

dmcgee at dublin ~
$ ll /usr/bin/rsh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-06-12 23:23 /usr/bin/rsh -> ssh


Anyone know where these symlinks came from? No package owns them, and
they've obviously been around a while. They didn't exist on my newer
x86_64 system.

-Dan


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